Star Wars: The Data Awakens

Activity

• At each of your tables, you have:
  • Star Wars Movie quotes
  • What we call a lexicon dictionary of sentiments.
    • This one is called Bing
    • All words are either positive or negative

Activity Instructions

• Fill in the table with each word of your quotes on the left and their sentiment (positive or negative) on the right.

• Count the number of positives and negatives and write your totals at the bottom.

• Scan the QR code and enter your movie (IV, V, or VI). Then, you’ll see the number of positive sentiment words and negative sentiment words in your quotes.

  • If extra sheets are lying around, feel free to work on those quotes, too!

  • You can also respond at bit.ly/SWTDASent.

Let’s Dive Deeper

• What would we need to do if we wanted to understand the sentiment of a character or a movie as a whole?

• At each table is 1 computer connected to the TVs at those desks.

• Each computer has a program called RStudio on the screen, which allows you to program in the language R.

• R is a statistical analysis programming language and is one of the two most common languages in the field of data science (Python is the other)

What you will need…

A row of a dataset runs left to right. A column of a dataset is verticle (think the lettered columns in a Google Sheet).

• filter: This function is keeping rows with words spoken by “Vader”

• count: This function is counting how many times each word appeared

• group_by and slice_max: These functions are taking the counts, keeping the top 5 most common words that have positive sentiment and that have negative sentiment.